The goal of these contributions is to provide the best Blender experience on Apple hardware, as Blender is moving on from OpenGL.
The contributions started with Metal for Cycles and then continued with Metal as a GPU backend, for EEVEE, and the UI system. Currently, the Metal backend needs to be manually set under Preferences → System.Īround one year ago, after joining the Blender Development Fund and seeding hardware to Blender developers, Apple empowered a few of its developers to directly contribute to the Blender source code. This functionality has been in the works for a while, and it can be enabled through Preferences.Ĭurrently, the default backend is still OpenGL, but the goal is to switch to Metal after a period of testing and feedback. Next to Metal-accelerated computing in Cycles, it is now possible to enjoy improved EEVEE viewport (and UI) performance as well. As mentioned previously, these machines did not ship with GPUs that support Metal - Apple's 3D.The upcoming Blender 3.5 release now provides a Metal GPU backend on macOS builds! A first document walks users through installing macOS Mojave on the Mid 2010 and Mid 2012 Mac Pros. I have downloaded the game and each time I try to run it I get this message, 'You must have a Metal compatible graphics card and be running Mac OS X 10.11.6 or later to launch this process.' I have checked and I am already running on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.1. (Nvidia, AMD and Intel) This means: Intel HD Graphics 4000, Iris 5000 & 6000 family, nVidia GT 600M, 700M family, AMD R9 M family. In the WWDC 2015 video 'What's new in Metal, Part 1', Rav Dhiraj from the GPU software division states at 8'40' Metal is supported by all Macs introduced since 2012. It is intended to improve performance by offering low-level access to the GPU hardware for apps on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS. Metal is a low-level, low-overhead hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader application programming interface (API) developed by Apple Inc., and which debuted in iOS 8.Metal combines functions similar to OpenGL and OpenCL under one API. It also supports the earlier 'cheese grater' Mac Pro models back to Mid 2010, if equipped with a Metal-capable graphics card.
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